Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-19
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
SENATE

SENATE
Tuesday, February 6.-Een bills we're in
trOducsd in the senate this morning, The
following bills were passed on third reading
Senate bill IA, an act relating to the extern.
sion ana construction OF continuous and
connected lines Of railroad, and providing
Tor the purchase or lease Of railroad prop
Srtyy anu the purchase or guaranty o. rail
[ road securities In certain cases; substitute
I for senate bill 60, an act relating 10 internal
improvements in cities Of the first class;
senate bill -, an act to amend sections 81,
I - and a. OF article ,, chapter 81, of the
/ general statutes of 1868, entitled can act
! regulating crime and punishments;' sen
| ate Dill Al, an act supplemental to chapter
/ % OF the general statutes OF 1865, and to pre-
/ vent the disposition Of certain exempt
I property without the consent Of both hush
and aud wife; senate Joint resolution 2,
proposing an amendment to section /, srti-
Gle OF the constitution, by striking out the
word white"
The following bills were passed on third
I reading during tbs afternoon session OF the
senate: Senate bill 122, an act TO establish
the times of holding courts IN the several
counties OF the seventeenth Judicial district
OF the state Of Kansas, and to repeal chap
ter 81 of the session laws of 1886; senate
bill SO, an act legalizing certain roads and
highways II Franklin county, and making
record OF such roads and of the plats and
surveys of such roads evidence of the valid
lty OF the same senate Dill 81, an act pro-
Yldlng for the improvement OF county roads.
In committee OF the whole senate bill 2,
regulating fees and salaries of county Off
GERS, was killed.
Wednesday, February 9-Fivs bills we're
introduced in the senate during the morn
ing session. The following bill was passed
on third reading: Senate till 81, an act to
amend sections g, II, -, IA, p, 81, 81, SO, "a
and ll3, OF an act entitled IAN act to iucOr-
pOrate and regulate cities of the first class and
to repeal all prior acts relating thereto" ap-
proved March 4, 1881. The bill exempIs
cities with population of $4,000 or less
from attaching adjacent plated property.
The senate was IN committee Of the whole
all the afternoon, and recommended apprO-
prlatiOn bills for the state agricultural col
leges normal school, blind asylum. soldiers
orphan home, deaf and dumb asylum, To-
pska insane asylum, OsaWRtOmie insane asy-
lum, reform school and idiOtic asylum, for
the purchase OF Dassler's statutes and the
re-printing of supreme courts. s. j. R. 4,
submitting to the people a proposition to
amend the constitution prohibiting the VOt-
ing of and to railroads, Wasl lost.
Thursday, February Misrepresentation
bills for the maintenance OF the state educa-
tiOnal and charitable institutions were
passed on third reading during the morning
session. Bills for reprinung supreme
court reports, the purchase of $500 copies
Of Dassier's compiled sta utes of 1885, grant
ing the board of education of Fort Scott a
block of ground for a university square,
removing disabilities of certain persons,
fixing term of district court for the fifteenth
district authorizing the commissioners OF
Chautauqua county to levy taxes for a
bridge fund, changing the name of st. John
county to Logan, for the relief OF Robert
Curley, authorizing the commissioners of
Clay county TO build a certain bridge and
legaizing certain meetings, acts and Ordin-
auces OF the mayor and council of Min
neapOlis, were also passed on the third read
inc.
During the afternoon session of the sen
ate, bills for the relief of Al. w. COffman,
Geo. Is. Barber, 3. s. Moody and David II.
Dix; regulating the fees and salaries of the
county treasuFers, probate judges, county
clerks county attorneys, county auditors
ard registers of deeds OF Cherokee and
Labette counties, and legaliZing the official
acts OF VIM. Dark1ng, notary public or
Clay county, were passed on third reading.
). y. X. No J. 1ntru5Ulng to the people
a proposition for a constitutional con-
vsnUOn, was lost for the want of two
thirds EHaiOrity-23 ayes, 16 nays. Bills
authorizing the city of Winfield to transfer
| the imOecils asylum fund to the Ninth
avenue bridge fund; authorizing the COM
missIOners of Butler county, to appropriate
money to build a bridge across Whitewater
river; authorizing Garden City township
Finney county, to vote ST, GOO in bonds to
bulld a road through the sand hills IN said
township; legaiIZlug certain roads and high
ways II Washington county; for the relief
of John A, Williams and Ella Woods; en-
aiding Ellsworth township, Ellsworth cOun-
ty, to deliver bonds voted to the Kansas
Midland railway; legalizing the subscrip-
ton of Blue Mound township, Linn county,
to the capital stock of the
Kansas City 81 Pacific railway company:
authorizing the board of education of Bur
lingtOD to transfer certain moneys from the
sinking fund to the general fund, was passed
on third reading.
Friday, FebIu Try 1.-THE senate accepted
the Invitation of the people of Wichita, 20
visit that city, and fixed the hour for leaving
] Topeka at D. m, Friday, February Is.
Seven bills were introduced. Consideration
Of the penitentiary appropriation bill was
resumed IN committee of the whole, but was
| not cOmplsted.
The penitentiary appropriation bill was
| recommended for passage in committee OF
[ the whole. A bill pending for the appoint
ment by the governor and subsequently
election by the people of three commission
/ ers Of the supreme court to assist the su-
| prems judges.